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Although what may be the canonical definition of idea as "whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking" (Essay I.i.8), seems to be deliberately noncommital about their nature, there are several passages in Locke's Essay that suggest that he thought of them, at least when they were of visual origin, as being picture-like.
He certainly held that they arise from perception,[15] and that we are conscious of them when we employ them in our thinking (Essay II.i.2 3, I.i.8, II.xxvii.9).9
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